+225 The matter and energy that make up our bodies has existed infinitely before our births and will exist infinitely beyond our deaths. It has been a constituent of prehistoric air, soil, bacteria, water, plants, insects, and animals, and will be a part of future entities. This is an elegant and organic form of afterlife and reincarnation, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just because the atoms in myself and the atoms that built my house came from the same star that does not make my house, "alive". Afterlife suggest a conscious life after death. After I die I will become nutrients for animals and plants but that does not make me personally alive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is exactly why I used the phrase "form of" -- because it doesn't fit the traditional concepts or definitions of afterlife/reincarnation which usually require sentience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it's not an afterLIFE. No matter how you spin it if I do not know of my own existence I am not alive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You may call it "afterexistence" if you like.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, assuming you end up in plants and animals, it IS life Just not yours

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My energy ends up in plants and animals. Not concious life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I typically think of it as a haunting reminder of our mortality, but that works too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago